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ADVERTORIALS
NSK roller guides increase uptime of
PLS' UDE 2022 facilitates system analysis and debugging of automotive applications
The new major version UDE 2022 of the Universal Debug Engine®, which PLS Programmierbare Logik & Systeme will present at embedded world 2022 in Hall 4, Booth 4-310, offers completely new system features designed to make the development of automotive applications even more efficient and to achieve even higher software quality.
blow moulding machines A manufacturer of PET (polyethylene terephthalate) bottles frequently had to replace the linear guides on its blow moulding machines. However, after switching to NSK’s RA series roller guides, there have been no failures for over a year, producing annual cost savings in maintenance, spare parts and downtime of €60,000. Dissatisfied with the number of linear guide failures on its blow moulding machines, the
manufacturer invited NSK to investigate several faulty guides. Expert analysis identified the cause to be end cap damage, which was occurring due to the combination of short stroke movements, short cycle times, frequent start-stop operation and increased displacement force during start-up. Given this application profile and the damage that was taking place, NSK recommended
that the plastics processor installed RA series roller guides. These guides offer, among other things, very high load-carrying capacity and motion accuracy, extreme rigidity, smooth running, and long service life under conditions of short cycle rates and high loads. A principal design feature of the RA series are its spacers, which perform a restraining
function between each of the rollers. These spacers reduce roller skew and ensure smooth running, as well as lower displacement force during start-up. The user followed the recommendation and, on a trial basis, equipped one of its blow
The new AUTOSAR Run-Time Interface (ARTI) support of UDE 2022 enables in-depth
analysis of the runtime behavior of AUTOSAR-based systems. ARTI defines a comprehensive, standardized interface between the build tools as well as the debug and trace tools. For comprehensive, trace-based runtime analysis and time measurements, PLS also offers developers the ArtiHookGenerator, a standard-compliant tool that can be used to implement so-called hooks in the AUTOSAR application or in the respective operating system. With the help of these hooks, the UDE 2022 can record event traces, analyze them and visualize them in the Execution Sequence Chart. With that, exact timing measurements as well as the visualization of states of tasks, runnables and interrupt service routines are enabled. The recorded trace data can either be exported as ASAM MDF (Measurement Data Format) or as BTF (Best Trace Format) and then subsequently processed by timing tools.
moulding machines with NSK RA series roller guides. This machine ran for more than a year without any problems or breakdowns, reducing production downtime costs to zero. NSK's cost savings analysis showed that the retrofit of this one machine alone resulted in a saving of €59,500. In the light of this outcome, the PET bottle manufacturer had no hesitation in upgrading
its other blow moulding machines. NSK Europe Ltd.
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The extensive debug functions of UDE 2022 are available for a large number of new high-
end microcontrollers from different manufacturers. For example, with the TDA4VM, DRA829 and DRA821 devices, the Arm Cortex-A72-based Jacinto family from Texas Instruments is supported for the first time. In addition, support for Renesas Electronics' RH850 device family has been extended with the inclusion of the RH850/U2A. The latest controllers of the S32 Automotive Platform from NXP Semiconductors and Infineon's AURIX multi-core MCUs also benefit from the unique feature set of UDE 2022. For multi-core debugging of the new AURIX TC4x family, for example, UDE 2022 enables software testing and debugging not only on real hardware, but also on virtual prototypes from the Synopsys Virtualizer Development Kit or on UDE’s instruction set simulator TSIM. Also new is the support for Synopsys' ARC EV cores, which are used, among other things, for the Parallel Processing Unit (PPU) in the AURIX TC4x. For the development with Infineon's AURIX TC3xx controllers, UDE 2022 now also enables debugging of the XC800-based SCR standby controller. The SCR and the main cores of the AURIX microcontroller can be run within a common UDE debugger instance.
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